I am farily new to Linux so bear with me. I have been researching what software is available to use in Linux, to build websites. Kompozer, Quanta Plus, Amaya, Aptana, Bluefish etc. etc. keep coming up in the posts that I find on numerous websites.

I cannot, however, find anything but Bluefish available in the Mint repositories.

I have tried to install BlueGriffon and Amaya but not suceeded.

Any advise or guidance would be appreciated. Thanks.

Last edited by ambrostan on Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:06 am, edited 1 time in total.

Moved to the LMDE section of the forum, you might get better help in the right section

- Kompozer has been discontinued;- Quanta Plus hasn't seen development in many years, I'd call it discontinued as well;- Amaya should be installable, there are Debian downloads available;- Aptana requires Sun JDK, not sure if that is a problem;- BlueGriffon only has downloads for Ubuntu and may not work well with LMDE.

What kind of errors did you get from trying to install Amaya? It is the only one with .deb files, so it should tell you what libraries it is missing if it can't install.

Edit: and if anybody wants to suggest and alternative to Bluefish (the one you did install), what were the shortcomings of that for you?

You can always try run your windows editors via wine or cross over office ? I have most of my windows programs that i cant find linux alternatives for running with wine or cross over office without much fuss.

I usually play with Bluefish for simple webpages management too. I would try something else since Kompozer has been discontinued but unfortunately neither Amaya 11.4.4 (crashes on start) nor BlueGriffon 1.6.1 (glibc requirements) can run on Debian Wheezy or LMDE

While it may seem scary, in the long run hand-coding web pages gives you more control and freedom to be creative. The tools you need are readily available in LMDE: gedit/pluma, gFTP and Gimp. I have been using them for years with great success. I have created a series of modules that can be used together as needed to produce any type of website. I would be happy to share them with anyone who is interested. You can further customize them to suit your needs. They use HTML5, JavaScript and PHP for forms processing. A sample site can be seen at http://www.taowoods.org.

Gwrite works well, but it is a WSIWYG editor and codifies images. I don't use it seriously. I'm married to araneae - http://lxlinux.com/araneae.html. It's small and infinitely configurable, but requires wine to launch.

It is your responsibility to use an unmaintained software. Kompozer is in squeeze repos but will be removed when wheezy is out. The last "working" version of Kompozer is now 3 years old (!) and the dev has moved to build BlueGriffon instead.

Although no longer in the Ubuntu repositories, Quanta Plus is still the best! It is not a true WYSIWYG app but that's not what I want anyway. It has loads of useful tools - most of all, a really nice split-pane view that lets you preview as you code.

It is true that it is unmaintained - it is getting a bit old now and doesn't recognise some newer DTDs, but I think there is plenty of life in it yet. I chose to go on using it as I think it is the best web development app I have ever come across, for any platform.

I added Quanta and its dependencies to Mint 13 MATE using from the Trinity Desktop Environment repos. I did it like this:

1. Add the Trinity repos and signing key to your repositories using the instructions at http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/ ... stallation.2. Reload Synaptic - and Quanta-trinity appears! Mark it for installation in the usual manner.3. Create a launcher pointing to /opt/trinity/bin/quanta.

And away you go. On first launch you may get a warning that the kImagemap plugin won't work. This isn't critical to me so I just clicked past it.

It is your responsibility to use an unmaintained software. Kompozer is in squeeze repos but will be removed when wheezy is out. The last "working" version of Kompozer is now 3 years old (!) and the dev has moved to build BlueGriffon instead.

Good to know (used compozer for years) will try bluefish.

Thank YouJ.JayP.S. have seen projects/packages seemed dead unmaintained come back to life after quite some time.

The risks with "dead" software are not only ageing features, compatability troubles with newer software/OS, lack of bug-fixing and chances to be unable to find it anywhere (but maybe among your own backups): security holes may be exploited and fixes are non-existent.